Alejandra Rodriguez-Villamizar is a communications specialist, editor, and researcher based in Medellín, Colombia, with experience working at the intersection of investigative journalism, strategic communications, and multimedia storytelling.
She is currently Editorial Consultant at KeyCrew, where she leads and refines editorial processes, and manages and mentors the editorial team. Before this role, Alejandra coordinated multimedia content production and designed impact metrics. She conducted in-depth research on organized crime across Latin American countries, contributing to investigative reports that inform public debate and policy discussions. Her career also includes work in digital strategy and audience engagement at University College London, where she supported the Anthropology Department’s outreach and career initiatives.
Alejandra holds a BA in Communications and Journalism from Universidad EAFIT and an MSc in Politics, Violence and Crime from UCL, graduating with distinction. Her work is grounded in a people-centered approach that combines rigorous research, clear storytelling, and strategic thinking to generate social impact.
Austin’s residential real estate market is moving in two directions at once. The resale segment is facing challenges, particularly for some homeowners who purchased between 2021 and early 2024 and now have limited equity or may owe more than their homes would sell for. New construction, meanwhile, is attracting buyers through financing incentives, driven by ...
The conventional picture of a healthy housing market assumes activity across the price spectrum, first-time buyers at the bottom, move-up buyers in the middle, and luxury purchasers at the top. In the Kansas City metro, that middle layer has largely gone quiet. Upper-end buyers are transacting, entry-level buyers are finding ways in with family financial ...
Most Florida markets that lose 25 to 30 percent of their home values are in decline. On a ferry-access barrier island off the coast of Englewood in Charlotte County, the drop is producing something different: a functioning market reorganizing around a lower price band, with rebuilt housing stock and buyers who are willing to pay ...
In the part of southern Illinois that runs through Randolph and Perry counties toward the Missouri line, the housing market operates at a scale most metro buyers would not recognize. The area has little commercial property and few businesses, according to Nona Shaw, an agent with Tri County Realty, and the market is thin enough ...
A resale home in Royse City, Texas, has been sitting on the market for over ten months. A nearby resale property closer to downtown Dallas went under contract in 16 days. Both are in the same metro area, served by the same agent. The difference is not location alone – it is what new-construction builders ...
Durham’s housing market is sorting homes by condition and price. Emily Godrich of Heart NC Realty Group sees both outcomes: her two most recent Durham listings each sold within five days with multiple offers, while other homes in the market are not selling right away. Pricing has had to adjust as well. “We’ve had to ...
In Hampton Roads, Virginia, home to 13 military bases and every branch of service, the question behind a home purchase is not only whether the house works now, but what happens to it when orders arrive. Erin Ward, who leads a residential team at LPT Network HRVA Homes in Norfolk, says many military buyers in ...
Borrowers shopping for a mortgage tend to compare interest rates first, treating the lowest number as the best deal. But that instinct can backfire when a lower rate requires thousands of dollars in upfront fees to secure – fees that many homeowners never recoup before they sell. Sam Verma, who founded Cohivra, Inc., a mortgage ...
Tracy, California, has built its housing market on a simple bargain: drive an hour to a Bay Area job, get twice the house for half the price. But that bargain is under pressure. Interest rates have climbed, the broader economy has softened, and the rising cost of gasoline and diesel has made long commutes harder ...
Buyers evaluate a home based on what exists right now – the school down the road, the fire station response time, the condition of the nearest interchange. But in fast-growing small counties, what the local government is building today may matter more to long-term property values than anything visible on a drive-through. In New Kent ...
In a city where home values climbed sharply during the pandemic, some Austin agents are now telling sellers to stay off the market. The advice runs against the industry’s transactional incentives, but the logic is direct: in several Austin price ranges, the buyer pool has thinned enough that listing now risks closing below purchase price. ...
A self-employed borrower whose business deposits fifty thousand dollars a month can look, on a conventional mortgage application, like someone earning three thousand. That gap between actual cash flow and qualifying income is pushing business owners in the Chicago area out of the mortgage market entirely – not because they lack the money, but because ...
The path to a first home in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs has always required compromise. But the gap between what younger buyers want and what they can actually afford has stretched to a point where many are simply not buying, according to Karen Wydra, a 25-year residential agent with Ebby Halliday working the Garland and ...
The national conversation about housing being “stuck” does not map neatly onto every local market. In Tahoe-Truckee, according to Christy Morrison, broker and owner of Home and Slate Real Estate, the divide is more specific: homes in strong locations that have been well maintained are moving, while properties that were overpriced at the start of ...
Franklin County, Pennsylvania, does not behave like one housing market. It behaves like three, split along price thresholds that reflect a widening gap between buyers who can afford to move and those stuck in place. Under $350,000, homes sell fast, sometimes in days. Between $350,000 and $475,000, listings sit. Above $500,000, cash buyers close without ...
